Bulk Add Members

Step by Step Guide to Bulk Add Members

The Bulk Add Members function enables the Club Administrator to add a large number of members at the same time by uploading a Excel document in CSV format.

To Bulk Add Members;

Go to Members > Add & View Members.

Click 'Add'.

Click 'Bulk Add Members'.

NOTE:

The template with validation only applies to clubs within Ireland and Great Britain. Countries outside of these will not be presented with this option and will have to use the bare template.

All members added via the Excel file will also be registered at the same time.

Step 1

On step 1 you will be presented with the option to download a template.

This will present a spreadsheet that contains all of the fields necessary for the system although does not provide any of the help or validation of the previous document.

Clicking either of these will download it to your computer.

Step 2

Open the spreadsheet. Both of the spreadsheets will be laid out the same with the difference that the validated Excel file will contain tips and multiple choice drop-downs. Fill out the spreadsheet with the member data.

Step 3

We will now be saving the spreadsheet to a format that the system will be able to understand when the document is uploaded.

Determine which version of Excel you are using (It will tell you within the start menu > programs > Microsoft Office). It will say which version you are using 2003, 2007 or 2010.

Save the file as a CSV file to a folder of your choosing. You can do this:

In Excel 2003 by using the Save As command (on the File menu) and from the dropdown.

Choose the folder you wish to save it in.

In the Save as type list, click on CSV (comma delimited) and click Save.

A popup will appear. Click OK.

If another appears click YES.

In Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 by clicking into the round orb in the top left of the screen and click on Save As.

Choose the folder you wish to save it in.

In the Save as type list, click on CSV (comma delimited) and click Save.

A popup will appear. Click OK.

If another appears click YES.

NOTE:If your file contains fadas you will need to perform one additional step before uploading it into the system-

Open Notepad.

Click File > Open and select the bulk add members file.

Remove any blank trailing spaces at the end of the text.

Click File > Save As.

Set Encoding to UTF-8.

Click Save.

Step 4

Now you are ready to upload the file of new members.

Click 'Choose file'.

Locate the file that you previously named and saved to your computer.

Click on the file name.

Click 'Open'.

Figure 1 - Bulk Add Members Page

Step 5

Click 'Preview'.

The Preview Screen will show you -

The number of new members you have added to the spreadsheet.

The number of members with Good data (data entered successfully).

The number of members with Bad data (data entered incorrectly).

To see the correct validation for each field, hover over each column name.

Members who's data is invalid will be marked with a red '!' and will not be imported.

Click 'Import' to import members who's details have been entered successfully.

A drop down will appear announcing the number of members who were successfully added and the number that were unable to be added due to errors.

If all members were added successfully then the process has been completed.

If there were members with errors, the page will display a table of the members who were not imported. You can click 'Export Bad Records' to export the 'Bad Records' to another Excel spreadsheet were you can edit the invalid data and re-submit the spreadsheet. If you wish to do so click 'Export Bad Records'.

Otherwise, click 'Ok'.

Figure 2 - Bad Data Records

Export Bad Records

Click on 'Export bad records'

Edit all the records that are causing the errors, following the guidance from the export table(The errors will also appear after the last column on the spreadsheet).